Desperate Ukrainians risk Russian shelling in food queues


The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights puts the civilian death toll in Ukraine at 5,237 in its latest update last week. – AFP pic, August 1, 2022.

ON a morning hot enough to curdle milk in Ukraine’s second city, a few dozen hopefuls bat away wasps as they queue to get their hands on food aid.

They are taking a risk congregating outdoors in Kharkiv, where they can be targeted by Russian artillery fire, but it is the hours-long wait that is troubling them, not the danger.


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